Over 60,000 people live in places temporarily displaced after the deadly earthquake in Myanmar, while millions of tons of rubble must be urgently removed, the UN said today. “At least 2.5 million tonnes of rubble, or about 125,000 trucks, must be cleared,” the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said in a statement. “More than 60,000 people live in temporarily displaced sites” and “they are very afraid to return to their homes,” said Titon Mitra, an UNDP spokesman in Myanmar, according to the announcement. UNDP stressed that it used satellite images from Unosat, the UN satellite center, and the European Copernicus network, as well as data from Microsoft and the European Global Human Settlement Layer. The 7.7 -magnitude earthquake that hit March 28th on March 28 was one of the strongest recorded in the country for a century and influenced six areas with a total of 28 million inhabitants, destroying buildings, leveling communities and leaving tens of thousands of people without […]
Source: News Beast
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